Studies In Modern History
About the Book Series
General editors: John Morrill and David Cannadine
This series, intended primarily for students, will tackle significant historical issues in concise volumes which are both stimulating and scholarly. The authors combine a broad approach, explaining the current state of our knowledge in the area, with their own research and judgements. The topics chosen range widely in subject, period and place.
East India Company , The: A History
1st Edition
By Philip Lawson
September 06, 1993
This is the first short history of the East India Company from its founding in 1600 to its demise in 1857, designed for students and academics. The Company was central to the growth of the British Empire in India, to the development of overseas trade, and to the rise of shareholder capitalism, so ...
Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries
1st Edition
By Rory Miller
July 05, 1993
The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and reappraises its impact on the Latin American ...
Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715
1st Edition
By Tim Harris
February 01, 1993
The first major study of party conflict in England over the later Stuart period from the reign of Charles II to its culmination under Anne. Tim Harris shows how the party configuration of subsequent British politics emerged in these crucial years. He deals not only with high politics and with the ...
Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830
1st Edition
By C. A. Bayly
June 05, 1989
In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, ...
Pax Britannica?: British Foreign Policy 1789-1914
1st Edition
By Muriel E. Chamberlain
January 23, 1989
Pax Britannica? is a study of Britain's international role and foreign policy during the century of her imperial greatness. The study shows how her foreign policy was affected, and to some extent, dictated by her domestic political issues. In her stimulating and readable study, Dr Chamberlain ...
Popular Radicalism: The Working Class Experience 1780-1880
1st Edition
By D. G. Wright
February 08, 1988
This well-argued and richly-detailed book concludes that the working-class radical movement was never able to prove a serious challenge to the stability of the British state; and, in fact, achieved very little in these years, except when operating in conjunction with the political movements and ...
Tudor Parliaments,The Crown,Lords and Commons,1485-1603
1st Edition
By Michael A.R. Graves
October 21, 1985
This excellent short survey looks at the workings of parliament under the first four Tudor monarchs. After an introductory first section which looks at parliament's medieval origins, the author then considers all aspects of early parliamentary history - including the historiography of the early ...